I guess we sound like smug smarty pants these days as every day brings more dawning that we were right about it ALL. We also sound like we are just waking up to the reality that by nature or by poison …more people are NUCKIN FUTZ than we ever imagined ( half at least )

Here is a piece from years ago on the sidebar…more relevant than ever

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It contains the five laws of human stupidity enumerated below:

1. Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

2. The probability that a certain person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

3. A stupid person is one who causes losses to another person or a group of people while they gain nothing or may even suffer losses.

4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that in any time and place and circumstance dealing and/or hanging out with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

5. Stupid people are the most dangerous type of people.
Carlo Cipolla, the Italian economist, adds a corollary to the above saying “A stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit.”

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